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Legend Panel 2010 Final Legend Panel Sunday, June 6, 2010 Plaza Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Lucky: So this year, I was hoping we could have a little bit more of a casual day together - that is why I had us do this. There is still some coffee and donuts back there if anybody wants some, you can help yourself. I think what we will do this year is ask everyone to introduce themselves and tell us about what your most memorable performance experience is, and get some of the juicy stories. Once we’ve introduced all the legends, we are going to open it up for questions. I think that is the most exciting way to do this and then what I would like to do is I would like to chat for about an hour/hour and a half. Then I want to use the rest of our time here together just to have a little bit more of a just a mingle so you can get a chance to have a one on one with the legends, so without further ado… Satan’s Angel: Please make it short, geez the last time I was here I shaved my legs twice. Tiffany Carter: Hello, I am Tiffany Carter, Miss Nude Universe 1975. I started off in Hollywood, California and one of the most memorable moments for me of course was when I won the pageant in Toronto, Canada. We were banned in Boston… went to Toronto for the pageant and that is where I won the Miss Nude Universe pageant. In my day of that it was not like a competition like you’re doing today, it was more like a beauty pageant where you get actually a gown… it didn’t have anything to do with your act or anything like that. It was basically a beauty pageant. (Applause) Dusty Summers: Hello my name is Dusty Summers, sometimes better known as Las Vegas’ only nude magician. I have been very fortunate I caught the very tail end of really old-time burlesque with the comic site Monkey Kirkland and Ralph Clifford and Bob Mitchell, so I got in on all of that. I got in on it when we did the fringe gogo bikini dancing - I had to go through every single step because really and truly I get really nervous when people are looking at my nude body. As you know, or some of you know anyway if you are brand new, this was the first time I went down to pasties since I have been doing this. (Applause) Anyway it had been that long since I started dancing nude down to pasties, so I am just a slow learner. Big Fannie Annie: I am Big Fannie Annie, (Applause) and I was the first big girl to come out of the business at 450 lbs. and I worked that way up to 650 lbs. then I went back to 300 lbs. and god knows what I am today. That is my claim to fame because you are really thin - if you are five pounds over you would have to go home - they wouldn’t take you. Thank you. (Applause) Tai Ping: My name is Tai Ping, (Applause) I was named as (…) in the Midwest, in 1965 in Honolulu, I worked Forbidden City and there were scandals, and then they called me and that is when I had my first experience. I love Hawaii and they call me their own and that is when I first began. (Applause) Dee Milo: I am Dee Milo and I actually started Burlesque because it was an easier way of making money. I didn’t really have to rehearse a lot, I didn’t have to do too much but have some pretty wardrobe and good ankles. My manager was Joe Kirskey and he had me work in Japan and Mexico, up and down the west coast - not the east coast - and it was a lot of fun for me, and yes I provided extra finances for my family and there are some families who came in from Europe that I didn’t even know about at the time… so I started in ’49 and left in about ’63 because I was repenting. I went back home to Salt Lake City, Utah and joined the dominant religion. My mother said if you really repent you will burn and destroy all of your past, so I did. I guess in 1995 Dixie was on this program and I thought I am going to go and see these other gals, so here I am. (Applause) Satan’s Angel: She burned everything, she burned all her gowns, her pictures, I mean everything, she has nothing. You know who I am - I’m Satan’s Angel. (Applause) I’m the bad girl of burlesque. Thank you very much. And I got a potty mouth to death, you know. I actually was born and raised in San Francisco and I started there in 1961 for the same reason that most of ladies did. It was for the money, because I was making $99 in a corporate company every two weeks. And I could make $350 a week. Like, I could buy a car. I think my most craziest and wildest experience that ever happened to me and of course a lot of the girls have worked Alaska… was I was on stage dancing and this grizzly bear of a man comes running down the aisle screaming “Angel, Angel” and he is carrying this huge hunting rifle that he would shoot mooses with, I thought oh my God he hates me, he is going to shoot me. He runs up on the stage and he slams it down on the stage and says “I don’t get paid for three more months because I am working the pipe line and this is the most expensive thing I got and it cost me $500, or $5,000 whatever it was” so he gave me his rifle. They will throw gold nuggets at you. (…) So Alaska was probably the craziest and wildest, I mean them boys were real horny. (Applause) Joan Arline: It’s funny performing and wearing my 55 year old costume, but one of my husbands, my first husband was a marvelous musician and he is the one that suggested that I am not going to make much money staying as a dancer, go into Burlesque. I was from Connecticut, I didn’t know much about Burlesque and I certainly didn’t know how to spell it. …I had studied ballet and my mother was like how could Joanie go from ballet to Burlesque. They had a big building that was marked auditions, they both begin with “B” - anyway I have enjoyed Burlesque - there have been many fun moments, exciting moments. The prop had not been out of the shipping crate for 51 years because I decided when I went into Burlesque I will work five years, I will have a baby, when that baby is three years old, I will have a second baby. I planned my life, I lived my plan. So 51 years ago I got pregnant intentionally and the prop went into a crate. And three years late—well 2 and a half weeks after the third birthday, my son was born, so I did what I had planned. However, very thrilling moment was last Wednesday when the prop was taken out of the crate, and it was assembled. And I was so moved—it was a very moving thing because I used to talk to the man’s face on the prop doing the act, they like me, or my pasty’s loose, or whatever the problem was I would tell him during the act, so last Wednesday I did a show here with my son who is a performer and he did a semi-strip and sang, nothing but the radio on and it was good. Then he introduced me, the introduction was pretty wonderful and my biggest moment was fighting back the tears when the curtain was going to open and I am on my prop with my man there greeting me and my son is saying these wonderful things, that was a very thrilling experience. (Applause) April March: Hello, I am April March, (Applause) I went from being copy girl for the Daily Oklahoma in Oklahoma City to being the flower and cigarette girl at a place called The Derby Club in Oklahoma City. One evening I bumped into a little gentleman coming out of the ladies room and he thought I was on the show there and I said no, I said “I wouldn’t take my clothes off.” He gave me his card and he said you should be in show business. He said if you ever decide that you want to get into Burlesque, he said you come to Dallas, Texas and I will see what I can do. So I thought about it a while and I told my grandparents I’m going to Dallas to tap dance. On I went with my little tap dance costume, off to Dallas, went to The Theater Lounge which was owned by Mr. Barney Weinstein, and he was very surprised to see me but right away he started off with rehearsing with the band and I’ll never forget a stripper by the name of Halloween gave me my very first costume. So I remained at The Theater Lounge for a while, he gave me the name of April March, and I later on added “the first lady of Burlesque” to that.
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